sharing myself...

We are blaming that Education is getting corrupted by the
private colleges and schools demanding higher fees and donations but at the
same time we ourselves admit that education standards have increased by these
private colleges and schools. Days are gone that students and parents likely to
turn towards Government Schools. Images of some village school will obviously
come to our mind where the number of teachers is more than the number of students!

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a college dropout but he had
certain views on education and reforms in it. Steve’s views on education were
interviewed by Smithsonian Institution and have published the excerpts of the
interview. Even though Steve expresses his ideas on US education or education
in general his views are valid for any country.

“I'm sure it did. I'm a very big believer
in equal opportunity as opposed to equal outcome. I don't believe in equal
outcome because unfortunately life's not like that. It would be a pretty boring
place if it was. But I really believe in equal opportunity. Equal opportunity
to me more than anything means a great education. Maybe even more important
than a great family life, but I don't know how to do that. Nobody knows how to
do that. But it pains me because we do know how to provide a great education.
We really do. We could make sure that every young child in this country got a
great education. We fallfarshort of
that. I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three
individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.
I'm 100% sure that if it hadn't been for Mrs. Hill in fourth grade and a few
others, I would have absolutely have ended up in jail. I could see those
tendencies in myself to have a certain energy to do something. It could have
been directed at doing something interesting that other people thought was a
good idea or doing something interesting that maybe other people didn't like so
much. When you're young, a little bit of course correction goes a long way. I
think it takes pretty talented people to do that. I don't know that enough of
them get attracted to go into public education. You can't even support a family
on what you get paid. I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough
that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand
dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty
thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a
year? Is that an intelligence test? The problem there of course is the unions.
The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not
a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened.
The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be
fired. It's terrible.”